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And Then They Came for the Gays: Paragraph 175 and the Pink Triangle

Fri. Oct. 19th, 2012  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

The famous poem above was written by the courageous German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller in the years after he was liberated from one of Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps. As was the case with most conservative Protestant clergymen and their congregants, Niemoller despised the Weimar democratic r

Wars Come Home: A Suicide Every Day Among Vets

Fri. Oct. 26th, 2012

If anything makes the case against today’s wars and puts the lie to campaign ads about fighting for freedom or caring for veterans, it’s the overwhelming number of suicides among active-duty and returning vets. General Sherman said, “War is hell,” but war can

The Death Of Bambi

Mon. Nov. 12th, 2012  |  Harry Drabik

The slow-coming arrival of winter cheers those looking forward to use of their snow machines, skiing, ice fishing, etc. Spring is a favored time by others as long-awaited relief from shoveling snow and hard frozen ground. Summer has many admirers looking to spend the l

Kangaroo Court Looming for Nuclear Weapons Critics

Mon. Nov. 26th, 2012

Three disarmament radicals that snuck into the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex last July — among them Duluth’s own Greg Boertje-Obed — are preparing for their Feb. trial, and face the prospect that any mention of nuclear weapons will be forbidden.

Unconditional Obedience to Authority, Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Commandant of Auschwitz

Fri. Nov. 30th, 2012  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

A couple of years ago, the iconic gate to the infamous World War II-era extermination camp at Auschwitz was stolen. As far as I know, the “crime” has not been solved. At the top of that gate was this classic bit of Nazi propaganda, proclaimed to the millions of doomed incoming victims: “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes One Fre

Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy and FDR If Work Won’t set us Free, Will Truth do the Job?

Fri. Dec. 7th, 2012  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

This is the week that the corporate media, careful to not upset the uber-patriots and nationalists among us, will be featuring reports about the December 7, 1941 Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. In addition to hearing stories about those beginnings of WWII (at least for the US), we may also be hearing reports

Unlearned Lessons from World War I: the Christmas Truce of 1914

Sun. Dec. 30th, 2012  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

In World War I, as happens to be true in most wars, the Christian church leadership joined in the patriotic fervor with very un-Christlike, nationalistic, and racial/religious superiority stances. Astonishingly, religious leaders on every side of the conflict truly believed that God was on their particular side. And so

My New Year’s resolutions

Sun. Dec. 30th, 2012

- I will only spend 90 percent of my paychecks on useless eBay garbage, instead of my usual 125 percent. - I will find myself a nice lady to settle down with. Not because I want companionship, but because my doctor says if I continue playing Call of Duty 17 hours per day, I will eventually become a cripple.

“Now That He Is Safely Dead”: Silencing the Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fri. Jan. 11th, 2013  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

“Now That He Is Safely Dead” Now that he is safely dead let us praise him, build monuments to his glory, sing hosannas to his name. Dead men make such convenient heroes. They cannot rise to challenge the images we would fashion from their lives. And besides, it is easier to build monuments than to make a better world. – Carl Wendell Hines

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